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Clonality and prognostic implications of p53 and epidermal growth factor receptor somatic aberrations in multiple primary lung cancers.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Jan 2007
Chang Yih-Leong, Wu Chen-Tu, Lin Shu-Chen, Hsiao Chin-Fu, Jou Yuh-Shan, Lee Yung-Chie
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PURPOSE: For treatment decision and prognostic applications, we evaluated p53/epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) somatic aberrations in multiple primary lung cancers to differentiate multifocal tumors from intrapulmonary metastasis. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Fifty-eight multiple primary lung cancers of 1,037 patients in a 10-year period were identified to investigate somatic mutations and altered expression of...
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